Christopher Lane, Ph.D.

Christopher Lane is the Pearce Miller Research Professor at Northwestern University. He teaches and writes about Victorian and modern literature and intellectual history, including psychology and psychiatry. His books include The Burdens of Intimacy, Hatred and Civility, and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness. He's written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Sun, Herald Tribune, and New Statesman and Society.

The results of an enquiry by our prison system into the death of an inmate named Ashley Smith, 19, has determined that maybe they should ban the isolation of mentally ill prisoners for long periods of time. Isolation for long periods of time CAUSES what gets defined as “mental illness.” Though the system knows this, they cannot seem to connect the dots here either.

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I repeat again; I am NOT a medical professional or mental health expert. I am an ex mental patient and psychiatric survivour, one who believes also from experience that 'bio-psych' is the wrong way to go.

Thank you for your decades of Public Opposition to the Psychiatric Faith.

His writing was among those of others which, having read in my youth, helped me to recover myself in later life, despite all the pressure by others to have me accept myself as defective and incapable of perceiving my own reality, from my own point of view.

The opposing viewpoint helped me to anchor to reality. This is also why I do this website in the hope that the public exposure of my own surreal experience will give others who have come after me, and who also get trapped in the invalidation system, to do the same.

Related Many Problems to Parental ActsAlice Miller, a psychoanalyst who repositioned the family as a locus of dysfunction with her theory that parental power and punishment lay at the root of many human problems, died at her home in Provence on April 14. She was 87.

For full article click on the link in her name

A 'Message' for You from "We the People"Regarding Esmin Green and
Many Others

Neither pro- nor anti- medication, the guide provides valuable information for making wiser decisions, and supports people coming off as well as staying on meds. It was developed with the editorial involvement of 14 health care professionals, including psychiatrists, registered nurses, and acupuncturists, and published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center. You can find out more about the Guide by clicking on the link in the Title. PLease make sure you scroll down far enough.

Many people have presented me with the following challenge: ‘People suffer. Often, good therapists can help relieve suffering, and suffering people deserve to have insurance pay for their therapy. But insurance companies won’t pay unless the person gets a psychiatric diagnosis. However, psychiatric diagnosis is unscientific and has often caused both direct and indirect, devastating effects in people’s lives. So what is the solution?”

Special People and Places

In June 2006, Leonard’s Electroshock Quotationary, was published on the Internet. The book is an illustrated, 154-page collection of chronologically arranged quotations, excerpts, and short essays about the history and nature of electroshock (electroconvulsive treatment, ECT), psychiatry’s most controversial procedure. This is a PDF file.

"Read this book as a safety manual for avoiding the most terrifying kind of workplace injury. The advice given here is clear, practical, and sound. Its foundation in empirical research is firm. I recommend this book to every employee and manager in America."

-Dr. Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada, author of Eliminating Professors, A Guide to the Dismissal Process